David L. Kirp

David L. Kirp, professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship With Community (Princeton).David L. Kirp's dissection of American universities, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education, has just been published by Harvard University Press. His latest book, The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics, will be published in August.

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  • Racists & Robber Barons

    July 12, 2007 Subscribe

    Rather than build a unified culture in a diverse society, the conservative Gang of Five that now dominates the Supreme Court is polarizing the country.

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  • Before School

    November 2, 2005 Subscribe

    San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francisco's initiative could make preschool as commonplace as kindergarten.

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 11/10/08
This week, what it all meant. Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel on Barack Obama's victory and the coming battle for progressive change we can believe in. (13mb mp3)

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